The first meeting with Josie was when her son, Robert, brought me home to their Silver Lake cottage along with the can of Campbell Tomato Soup, which what he was sent to purchase. The knotty cedar dinning room was perfectly set. Casual dinning was always a formal situation. She did beautiul at orchestrating family celebration..
Josie and her husband Joe would go walking on the dunes to boost her Vitamin C/D intake. She would be happy with present day the vitamin ingestion. She would cut that banana into slivers to maintain her potassium requirement.
She was a wonderful musician and didn't read music until she was 45. She played Gospel piano as a backup to her sister Lillian on the radio broadcasts from Ludington when she was 12. All one had to do but request a melody and she would play it. She loved "Boogie" and Scott Joplin too. In her house was a 7' Grand, an organ and two spinnets. I never knew any music that she could not play!
She graduated from Muskegon High School with Harry Morgan of Dragnet and Mash.
What a wonderful inspiration she is to all of us. Her love of music is alive with her grandchildren. Heaven now has a real piano player.
May her spirit rest in peace with Jesus Christ.##imported-begin##Linda Kay Johnson ##imported-end##
